#WhyIScience Q&A: A machine learning engineer builds algorithms to improve clinical research

As an undergraduate at Princeton University, Pulkit Singh loved thinking about intelligence and how humans experience the world. She dabbled in philosophy, visual arts, and computer science, each field granting her a new way to think about the mind. During a study abroad program in Edinburgh, UK, Singh took a computational cognitive science class and knew she'd found her niche. She'd been fascinated by the brain but couldn't see herself becoming a biologist in the lab. And although she loved computer algorithms, she hadn't thought about how human and machine intelligence could benefit each other.